Cool new show in Troy: "The work begins in the foyer of Paine Mansion, after which the audience scatters to follow the actors to one of four staging areas. The mansion’s towering wooden pocket doors close and performances ensue before the ritual repeats, mimicking the cyclical nature of history."

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

I've been fortunate to interview Bruce twice, and both conversations were the sort that defy the old "never meet your heroes" adage. Funny, friendly, smart and sincere, Bruce is every bit the person you hope he is. This news sucks.

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This is my Patterson-Gimlin film.

I am currently standing in the back of a club waiting to see a saxophone-playing sasquatch. My job is wonderfully weird sometimes.

"Fingers flutter, flex and curl to convey impossible promises: a song that will conjure spring against growing hunger and poverty. Times are 'dark and getting darker all the time,' the recording of Eurydice sings as Poulin’s hands cover her eyes like a ticking clock." via @katkiessl.bsky.social

Sunday stack. #waffles

I've had my This Is Fine mug so long that the dog has become a ghost and all that remain are flames

Coming to a wall near you soon - very soon! #photography #streetphotography #monochrome #blackandwhitephotography #bnw #bandw #urbanphotography #UrbanGaze #urbanscape #urban #streetscape #ClassicMono #candid #timeandplace

Re-sharing something not terrible and not depressing for our collective mental health...

Movie club made things weird w/ this week's Letterboxd #LastFourWatched. 3 of 4 were club picks under the "Unrequited Love" theme. Most read it as "movies I love but most people don't." My pick, "Beautiful Girls," is a film I love in which unrequited love is a key theme. #LetterboxdFriday #FilmSky

"Using 'queerness as a lens,' she detailed the habits of crows, fungi, eels and snails, among others. For instance, crows form same-sex bonds, and glass eels are sexually undetermined for most of their lives."

The rainbow-barfing gnome by which we measure accumulated snow is once again visible, suggesting warmer weather is on the way. Or not. He is a fickle gnome, after all, and a notorious liar.

Not to sound extremely old man yells at cloud, but the internet used to be where you go to read stuff mostly and now I feel like the internet is tv and I don't know how to compete with that or build anything within that. How does one compete with mindlessly scrolling the channels.

This month's Book Swap newsletter delivers 17 book recommendations from @timesunion.com staffers (incl. me!), guest contributors & readers under the theme of "unlikely love stories." The book I recommend was one of my favorite novels of that year (and in recent years, for that matter). #booksky ❤️📚

I don't play basketball, but this photo is all kinds of gorgeous.

I love drone photography. I love Nipper. Win-win.

As someone who spent some time earning $ training a prominent AI platform (under extremely strict NDA), I will say that none of this news is any surprise whatsoever and we should *definitely* not be allowing AI to make decisions about military actions or pretty much anything w/ serious consequences.

Noted. Appreciated. Bookmarked.

Nightmare fuel: "In Korakrit Arunanondchai’s 'The Ghost takes us by the hand,' the audience is confronted with rows of theater seats occupied by a lone figure resembling a sculpture come to life. The being is surrounded by a pounding score, flashing lights, black-and-white images and rolling fog..."

That *is* a damn fine cup of coffee. Happy Twin Peaks Day to all who celebrate. Mind the owls.

People demanding to know "why isn't this front page news" when it is literally front page news remains my biggest social media bugaboo.

Not bad for a local guy who makes music w/ junk: "It’s a story that features concerts with Phish, performances at Lincoln Center and The Van’s Warped Tour, appearances on 'Late Night with Conan O’Brien,' soundtrack appearances on NBA and Nike commercials and musical robots made at Bristol Labs."

Took a bit of a social media break this weekend while I celebrated a good friend's birthday (we got a group together to play "Secret Hitler," ofc), dug out of the snow, and, admittedly, spent some quality time with "Ghost of Yotei." But now I'm back, baby. I'm back.

A different sort of ice dancing in Tresca's review of this local, limited-time performance... "By placing the performers on skates, 'Constellations' explores how movement changes with the addition of new possibilities and perils — like speed and glide, uncertainty and instability."

Every time I see Alysa Liu's amazing hair, she reminds me of a Marvel Comics character. And I feel like she'd probably be okay with that.

I only got 5 correct in this week's quiz. Clearly, I need to brush up on my Bobby Duvall oeuvre. www.timesunion.com/projects/mov...

I can’t believe I’m old enough to afford toys at Toys R Us now and VCs destroyed it before I got a chance to go on a shopping spree

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

"(Tim) Curry had a particular fondness for Gonzo because 'he’s out of his mind.' But he adored Miss Piggy." (Gift link below so you can read the story yourself.) #TheMuppets #TimCurry #TreasureIsland #Muppets

This looks fun! And I like that art from Dennis Menheere (@dennismenheere.bsky.social). The new comic will "follow the adventures of the USS Enterprise-G and its captain, Seven of Nine, after the events of Star Trek: Picard‘s final season."

I love so much about this: "Under hazy club lights, packed crowds of hockey jersey-clad attendees swap trading cards of fictional players and friendship bracelets. There's dancing to fan-edited montages of the show and its stars. Sometimes drag performers pop up..." #HeatedRivalry

This is cool! "In PS21’s Black Box Theater, visitors travel through 4k reactive LED lights & a 496-channel soundscape to evoke a journey into a cosmic matrix. In 'The Quiet Volume,' the audience at Chatham Public Library will be given whispered clues leading to a discovery within a stack of books."

R.I.P. to the actor who gave us two of the most deranged, frequently paraphrased, and outrageously memorable line deliveries in cinema history, both from the same film (Apocalypse Now): "I love the smell of napalm in the morning!" and "It smelled like... victory."

Just in case you don't hear from me for a while. #GhostOfYotei #PS5

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh Booooooyyyyyyyyyy...

oh hi rick.

This is glorious. Raising Arizona, Surf Nazis Must Die, Little Shop of Horrors... with random screenings of Easy Rider and The Hidden Fortress dropped into the mix? Just... beautiful.

This exhibit of community arts & activism posters from the '70s & '80s has some gorgeous art. 97yo artist Bernice Bornt has had a heck of a life and created a beautiful time capsule of the Troy & NYC arts scene of that particular era.

This is adorable. "The volunteers passed books hand to hand to relocate a selection of titles from The Book House’s current location to its new home." #Booksky ❤️📚

From U.S. Rep. Andy — hold on a second, just need to check my notes, gosh my handwriting can be hard to read but oh yes I think I can decipher this — Ogles.

Be the story! Live the story! Stan the story! Reach out to Katherine, Church of Hollonov!

"Prosecutors showed video surveillance footage that captured Wolcott wearing a clown mask and walking up the street while holding a red chainsaw. During the argument, he pulled a plastic sheath off the chainsaw and raised it threateningly toward the other man, according to the DA's office."

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."